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Romans 3:7

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

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ASV

But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

KJV

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

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θεοῦtheouof GodG2316 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
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ἐπερίσσευσενeperisseusenaboundedG4052 →
εἰςeistoG1519 →
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δόξανdoxangloryG1391 →
αὐτοῦ,autouof Him,G846 →
τίtiwhyG5101 →
ἔτιetistillG2089 →
κἀγὼkagōalso I myselfG1473 →G2532 →
ὡςhōsasG5613 →
ἁμαρτωλὸςhamartōlosa sinnerG268 →
κρίνομαι;krinomaiam judged?G2919 →

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Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”Romans 9:19–20One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”Acts 13:27–29The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.Jeremiah 11:18And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.Isaiah 10:6–7I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.2 Kings 8:10–15Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ‘You will surely recover.’ But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”Matthew 26:34“Truly I tell you,” Jesus declared, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.”Matthew 26:69–75Meanwhile, Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him. “You also were with Jesus the Galilean,” she said.Hebrews 3:10Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’Hosea 9:8The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!Genesis 44:1–14Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.Genesis 37:8–9“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.1 Kings 13:17–18For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”Exodus 14:30That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.Genesis 50:18–20His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”Genesis 37:20“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

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